-Frontline If Budget 2015 is any indication, the Modi government is going beyond what could be called benign neglect of agriculture to policy moves that are likely to harm its viability. IT is scarcely surprising that Farmers are upset with the Narendra Modi government. Indeed, the rosy dreams created by that famous campaign advertisement of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), when Farmers spoke of the high crop prices and better cultivation conditions...

-Business Standard Marriages on hold, children being returned from schools over unpaid fees; the rural economy is bearing the brunt of unseasonal rains, a crisis in the sugar cane sector and a fall in prices of farm pro Hapur/ Meerut: In the mid-afternoon, when most Farmers are returning home to rest, Rana Ranjit Singh is sweating buckets on his farm in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district, searching for vegetables left undamaged after untimely...

-The Hindu High-level meeting to assess situation may be held today. Following reports of crop damage due to unseasonal rains across North India, the Modi government is likely to announce a relief package for Farmers. The details of the package are likely to be finalised at a high-level meeting to be attended by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh this week. The high-level meeting to take stock of...

-PTI New Delhi: Farmers organisations, including BKU, on Wednesday staged a massive protest, demanding that Centre must take assent of 100 per cent Farmers before land acquisition and the same should be done only for public purposes. Farmers gathered in droves at Jantar Mantar in the heart of the national capital under the banner of various Farmer unions affiliated to India Coordination Committee of Farmers Movement (AICCFM). "Government introduced these amendments in the...

-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: Prices of vegetables and pulses are set to shoot up after unseasonal rain damaged over 50 lakh hectares of standing crops across the country, putting enormous strain on household budgets. Consumers will have to pay more for potatoes, carrots, cabbages, mustard and almost all the pulses over the next few weeks. Rain in northern, central and western parts has caused widespread damage to crops in Punjab,...